List of Maltese dishes

The following is a list of dishes in Maltese cuisine:

Appetizers

  • Żebbuġ mimli (pitted green olives stuffed with tuna mixture)
  • Fażola bajda bit-tewm u t-tursin (white beans with parsley, garlic and olive oil)
  • Ful bit-tewm
  • Bigilla (mashed "Tic beans "known in Malta as "Ful Ta' Ġirba" (Djerba beans))
  • Galletti (Maltese biscuit)
  • Bebbux (escargot)
  • Arjoli (dip, a Maltese version of aioli without eggs but with added breadcrumbs/crushed galletti, tomato paste and various other pureed ingredients such as olives, capers, onions and anchovies, and herbs such as mint and parsley)

Soups

  • Brodu (beef or chicken broth)
  • Minestra (Maltese version of minestrone, a thick soup of Italian origin made with vegetables)
  • Kusksu (vegetable soup with small pasta beads called kusksu and fresh broad beans in season)
  • Soppa tal-armla Widow's Soup (vegetable soup with fresh cheeselets and beaten eggs)
  • Aljotta (fish soup with plenty of garlic, herbs, and tomatoes)
  • Kawlata (cabbage and pork soup)

Pasta and rice

Meat

  • Stuffat tal-fenek (rabbit stew)
  • Fenek moqli (fried rabbit)
  • Braġjoli (thin slices of meat that are stuffed and rolled as a roulade)
  • Laħam fuq il-fwar (steamed slices of beef)
  • Falda Mimlija (stuffed flank of pork)
  • Laħam taż-żiemel (stallion meat, usually fried or baked in a white wine sauce)
  • Zalzett tal-Malti (a short, thick sausage made of pork, sea salt, black peppercorns, coriander seeds and parsley)
  • Mazzit (Maltese blood sausage)

Fish

Eggs and cheeses

  • Ġbejna (plural ġbejniet), a small round cheese, varieties of which include:[1]
    • Ġbejna friski ("fresh ġbejna") – fresh, soft cheese stored in its natural state, without whey, with a similar taste to mozzarella[2]
    • Ġbejna tal-ilma ("ġbejna in water") - ġbejna preserved in whey
    • Ġbejna maħsula - ġbejna rubbed with salt
    • Ġbejna tal-bżar - ġbejna coated in pepper
    • Ġbejna tal-żejt - dried ġbejna, often with pepper, and preserved in oil, sometimes with wine vinegar
    • Ġbejna moxxi - sun-dried ġbejna
    • Ġbejna t'Għawdex - sun-dried ġbejna from Gozo
    • Ġbejna bajda - white ġbejna[3]
    • Ġbejna mħawra - ġbejna with mixed herbs
    • Ġbejna tal-ħabaq - ġbejna with basil
    • Ġbejna sagħtar u kosbor - ġbejna with thyme and coriander
  • Froġa (omelette with ġbejna, broad beans or meat)
  • Balbuljata (scrambled eggs cooked with tomatoes and onions)

Vegetable-based entrees and side dishes

Savoury pastries

  • Torta tal-irkotta (ricotta pie)
  • Sfineġ (vegetable, fish or cheese fritters);
  • Pastizzi
  • Qassatat (qassata)
  • Torti tar-ross u l-qargħa ħamra (rice and pumpkin pie)

Bread

Main article: Maltese bread

Sweets

  • Qagħaq tal-ħmira (or just "Kagħak" in some dialects, soft sweet bagel shape cake with a hint of aniseed, topped with sesame seeds)
  • Imqaret (deep fried diamond-shaped pastry)[4][5]
  • Kannoli tal-irkotta (ricotta filled fried crisp pastry tubes)
  • Ravjul moqli (sweet toasted ravioli)
  • Torta tat-tamal (date and cocoa tart)
  • Torta tal-marmorat (almond and chocolate pie)
  • Ħelwa tat-Tork (nut studded sesame seed and sugar halva)
  • Pudina tal-ħobż (baked bread pudding with raisins and cocoa powder)
  • Prinjolata (Carnival sweet, made of biscuit and sponge cake covered with frosting and decorated with glacè cherries and melted chocolate)
  • Kwareżimal (Lenten almond biscuit scented with the zest of orange, lemon and Maltese mixed spice, cinnamon and orange blossom)
  • Ftira tar-Randan (Lenten honey drizzled squares of crisp deep fried pastry)
  • Karamelli tal-ħarrub (Lenten hard candy flavoured with carob)
  • Figolla (Easter icing-coated biscuit stuffed with a mixture of sweet ground almonds called intrita)
  • Ħobża ta' San Martin (sweet bread roll, sweetened with mastic associated with Saint Martin's Day)
  • Qagħaq tal-għasel or tal-Qastanija (Christmas sweet rings made from a light pastry with a filling made of treacle, honey, semolina, citrus zest, cinnamon and cloves)
  • Għadam tal-mejtin (Pastry shaped in the form of a bone filled with almond paste)
  • Zeppoli
  • Qubbajt (Traditional Maltese Nougat)
  • Ġelat Malti (Ġelat tan- nanna) a traditional ice cream made from condensed milk, cinnamon, nuts, and candied peel.

Beverages

References

  1. ^ "Taste the Ġbejna: The Cheese of the Maltese Islands". The Snop House Senglea. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
  2. ^ "Sheep cheeselets in Malta". Malta Travel Guide. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
  3. ^ "The Ultimate Guide to Benna Ġbejna". Benna. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
  4. ^ Sweet Delights from a Thousand and One Nights: The Story of Traditional Arab Sweets, Habeeb Salloum, Muna Salloum, I.B.Tauris, Λονδίνο 2013, σελ. 132, ISBN 9781780764641
  5. ^ Proceedings of the First Congress on Mediterranean Studies of Arbo-Berber Influence, Micheline Galley, David R. Marshall, Société nationale d'édition et de diffusion, 1973
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